Alchemy Inc. - Akron, OH
Alchemy, Inc. provides holistic leadership development for men in urban settings using mythological traditions, themes, and motifs to integrate ancient wisdom in a contemporary context. Alchemy, Inc. works with teenagers, fathers, university students, parolees, and others, blending West African and Jungian psychological methods that can connect men with "each other, society, human life across generations, and all life upon the planet." Kalliopeia provides project support for Myth, Muses & Scribes, a collaboration with Kent State University that explores the use of myth in teaching writing skills to young urban men.
www.alchemyinc.net
Read "Counselor hopes to 'extract the gold within' boys," an article in the Akron Beacon Journal about the work of Alchemy, Inc.

ArtSpring - Florida City, FL
ArtSpring's mission is to support self-growth and effective life skills through artmaking for institutionalized women and girls. Through interdisciplinary programs that incorporate movement, theater, writing, drawing, music, storytelling, music, meditation, guided imagery, and performance, ArtSpring teaches tools of personal transformation to women in juvenile and adult correctional institutions as well as other underserved social programs. Artspring is widely acclaimed for the successful outcomes of its programs, and for its positive influence on the corrections system in the state of Florida.
www.artspring.org

Center for Contemplative Mind in Society - Northampton, MA
The Center for Contemplative Mind in Society works to integrate contemplative awareness into modern life in order to help create a more just, compassionate, and reflective society. Focusing in program areas like business, law, academia, and social justice, the center uses retreats, workshops, publications, and networking to promote a stronger web of people working to bring contemplative practice into their lives and professional cultures.
www.contemplativemind.org

Center for Education, Imagination and the Natural World - Whittset, NC
Kalliopeia provides project support for The Inner Life of the Child in Nature: Presence and Practice, a "co-research" program among educators that focuses upon the development of inner capacities in both children and adults that "enable us to form a bond of intimacy with the natural world," (presence) and the "development of new ways of working in the world" (practice.) Rooted in the inspiration of eco-theologian Thomas Berry, the program aims to provide children the opportunity to know the natural world as a sacred reality to be venerated, and to facilitate "a shift in consciousness within the educational realm" that comes from the creation of a community of educators who support and inspire one another to "imagine a new way of being in the world on behalf of the children and the Earth."
beholdnature.org

Center for Mind-Body Medicine - Washington, DC
Kalliopeia provides support for Healing Our Troops, a trauma recovery program for veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. The program's acclaimed mind-body model offers a supportive, non-stigmatizing peer environment that facilitates healing experiences, ultimately leading to resiliency and recovery. The program's wider goal is to train a sufficient number of military health and mental health professionals in this model and bring urgently needed relief and healing to all returning troops suffering from PTSD and their families.
www.cmbm.org

Contemplative Outreach, Ltd. - Butler, NJ
Contemplative Outreach is an international network of individuals and small faith communities devoted to fostering a deep inner connection to the universal meaning of the Christian scriptures through prayer and contemplation. Contemplative Outreach's primary focus is the instruction of contemplative practices through workshops and publications, especially the Centering Prayer taught by Father Thomas Keating.
www.contemplativeoutreach.org
Watch a Global Oneness Project interview with Father Thomas Keating.

Dominican University of California - San Rafael, CA
Kalliopeia provides support for the Northern California Courage to Teach program, a series of quarterly retreats for the personal and professional renewal of teachers and administrators in public schools. Courage To Teach is based upon the groundbreaking work of Parker Palmer and the unmet need to nourish the inner lives of young people and educators in our school systems. Focusing particularly on teachers, Courage To Teach retreats provide a trusting and reflective space for this devoted but underappreciated group of professionals, and are designed to rekindle the passion, commitment, and integrity that come from "reconnecting who we are with what we do."
www.dominican.edu/academics/education/grantsprojects/couragetoteach.html

DreamWeather Foundation - Sebastopol, CA
DreamWeather Foundation is dedicated to exploring and celebrating the unique strengths of feminine spirituality. DreamWeather believes that women’s unique spiritual capacities contain the wisdom of healing, interconnectedness, and transformation so profoundly needed by the world. Through workshops, retreats, and conferences around the country that provide time for women to gather, share dreams, meditate, and listen to the guidance of the heart, DreamWeather seeks to nourish feminine spiritual capacities for the good of the whole.
www.dreamweather.org

Faithful Fools Street Ministry - San Francisco, CA
Faithful Fools is a group of volunteers and religious leaders called to "a ministry of presence that acknowledges each human's incredible worth" through the arts, education, advocacy, and accompaniment. By organizing "street retreats" in which retreatants spend a day in the streets with mindful reflection on their own judgments and attitudes, Faithful Fools helps shatter myths about those living in poverty, and allows participants to see the light, courage, intelligence, strength, and creativity of the people they meet. These unscripted experiences of our common humanity give rise to transformative encounters of celebration, community, and healing.
www.faithfulfools.org
Watch a Global Oneness Project interview with Sister Carmen Barsody.

HeartStream Education - Seattle, WA
Kalliopeia provided support for the Changes program in California's San Quentin prison, a curriculum that provides prisoners with the inner resources needed to reframe the continuing conflicts and challenges of day-to-day life both in and out of prison. By bringing participants to a state of accountability in an authentic community, Changes cultivates self-awareness, emotional intelligence, motivation, empathy, and relationship skills.
www.heartstreameducation.org

Insight Prison Project - San Rafael, CA
A pioneering organization in the movement for restorative justice, the Insight Prison Project conducts a variety of in-prison rehabilitation programs that provide prisoners with the tools and life skills necessary to create enduring change. Using an intentional group process of "radical accountability," IPP provides transformational programs that aim to shift ingrained patterns of destructive behavior into conscious, life-enhancing choices. Programming includes violence prevention, substance abuse counseling, mindfulness meditation, and facilitated encounters between victims and offenders.
www.insightprisonproject.org
Watch several short ABC News videos about the work of the Insight Prison Project.

Institute for Jewish Spirituality - New York, NY
Through retreat-based leadership programs, the IJS works with rabbis, cantors, educators, and lay leaders to nurture and disseminate through mainstream Jewish institutions the stream of contemplative Judaism. The IJS uses a participatory model to teach Torah study, prayer, yoga, meditation, spiritual direction, and retreat, with the goal of enriching the inner lives of Jewish leaders, revitalizing the Jewish wisdom tradition, and connecting the search for inner wholeness with social and environmental activism.
www.ijs-online.org/
Listen to "Spirituality in Daily Life"a series of IJS podcasts.

Institute for Poetic Medicine - Palo Alto, CA
The Institute of Poetic Medicine (IPM) is dedicated to healing body, mind, and spirit through the therapeutic process of hearing and writing poetry. Based on the belief that the creative and healing process of poetry strengthens the human capacity to reconnect to what has been severed, IPM offers collaborative workshops, retreats, and programs to a variety of populations including youth, veterans, prisoners, the terminally ill, refugees, and the professionals who serve them. IPM uses poetry to encourage us to discover how vulnerabilities and strengths can co-exist, allowing a deeper authenticity and "awakening soulfulness in the Human Voice."
www.poeticmedicine.com
Healing Words, Poetry & Medicine Filmed at a large teaching hospital in Florida, "Healing Words: Poetry & Medicine" tells the stories of patients whose lives have been dramatically changed by the incorporation of poetry into their recovery process. The film follows Dr. John Graham-Pole and poet John Fox as they enter hospital rooms and help patients write poems as part of the healing process.

Mind-Body Awareness Project - Oakland, CA
The Mind Body Awareness Project is dedicated to teaching essential skills of violence prevention, stress reduction, and anger management to at-risk youth through the practices of meditation and yoga. Founded with the mission to teach life-saving skills that youth are not learning at school or in their homes, MBA classes and curricula use instruction, practice, and dialogue to help youth become aware of the destructive emotions and habitual behaviors that lead to alienation, substance abuse, crime, and violence. Classes have helped institutionalized and at-risk youth develop the confidence necessary to overcome negative patterns and promote self-awareness and empathy toward others.
www.mbaproject.org
Read “The Heartful Dodger,” an article about the MBA Project from Tricycle Magazine.

New York Writers Coalition - New York, NY
The New York Writers Coalition provides free and low-cost creative writing workshops, publication support, and performance opportunities throughout New York City for people who have historically been deprived of voice in American society. The Coalition believes that by writing with others in an atmosphere of respect and acceptance, participants discover the value of their own stories, gain confidence and a stronger sense of self, and become less isolated from themselves and from society: "By creating a community of writers and leaders from diverse backgrounds, we galvanize the voices of the marginalized and create opportunities for all writers to connect with the larger community. NYWC's goal is to create an inclusive city, one that is aware of the diversity of voices within it and honors the lives of all of its citizens."
www.nywriterscoalition.org

Nova Institute - Kensington, MD
Kalliopeia provides support for the Washington, DC area Courage to Teach program, a series of quarterly retreats for the personal and professional renewal of teachers and administrators in public schools. Courage To Teach is based upon the groundbreaking work of Parker Palmer and the unmet need to nourish the inner lives of young people and educators in our school systems. Focusing particularly on teachers, Courage To Teach retreats provide a trusting and reflective space for this devoted but underappreciated group of professionals, and are designed to rekindle the passion, commitment, and integrity that come from "reconnecting who we are with what we do."
www.novainstitute.org/our_work/teacher_renewal.htm
Listen to "On Parenting," a radio series and podcast with Jack Petrash.

PassageWorks Institute - Boulder, CO
The PassageWorks Institute is dedicated to transforming the culture of classrooms, schools, and districts so that the inner life of students and teachers is sheltered, nurtured and welcomed. The institute believes that acknowledging students' yearning for deep connection, engaging with difficult questions about meaning, honoring critical transitions in the cycle of schooling, and supporting the quest for a sense of purpose and genuine self-expression are critical to fostering academic achievement and true safety in schools. Through workshops, curricula, research, and cooperation with government and other groups, Passageworks motivates, prepares, and supports educators to implement its model for nurturing the inner lives of students and teachers.
www.passageworks.org
"The Soul of Education: Helping Students Find Connection, Compassion, and Character at School," an article by Rachael Kessler of Passageworks Institute. More articles to download here.



Introductory video about PassageWorks Institute by Rachael Kessler, teachers, and students.

Primordial Tradition (formerly The Peter Kingsley Foundation) - Asheville, NC
Through lectures, publications, and experiential workshops, the work of Primordial Tradition is "to bring back to life, and make accessible again, the extraordinary mystical tradition that lies forgotten right at the roots of the western world." Using the groundbreaking research of scholar Peter Kingsley, Primordial Tradition works to lift up the forgotten but immensely powerful tradition underlying western civilization designed to bring the human being to a direct and immediate experience of life in its depths. Fully understood, these teachings restore meaning and sacredness to our western culture.
www.peterkingsley.org
Watch a Global Oneness Project interview with Peter Kingsley.

Prison Communities International - Katonah, NY
Kalliopeia provides support for the Rehabilitation Through The Arts (RTA) program at Sing Sing maximum-security prison in Ossining, NY. RTA uses theater arts to offer prisoners a safe and supportive structure in which to develop leadership, community, positive self-expression, respect for self and others, and a sense of achievement. Weekly workshops with RTA staff and volunteers in reading, writing, public speaking, improvisation, acting, and directing culminate in original plays, monologues, and theater pieces that are performed twice each year for the entire prison population and invited community guests. Research indicates that the program strengthens cognitive abilities of participants and significantly reduces recidivism.
www.p-c-i.org/rta

Prison Dharma Network - Boulder, CO
Kalliopeia provides project support for the Path of Freedom Peacemaker Training Program for Incarcerated and At-Risk Youth, an in-depth training that integrates mindfulness-awareness meditation, body-mind synchronization, nonviolent communication, conflict resolution, and leadership skills – all grounded in the experience and context of contemplative spirituality. The program is presented to incarcerated or at-risk youth in a nonsectarian manner that encourages greater self-awareness and impulse control, and builds skills in relationship, communication, and leadership that support youth in developing a new vision for their future. Kalliopeia also provides support for the Prison Chaplaincy program, which provides resources and outreach for contemplative practice to prison chaplains in correctional facilities across the US.
www.prisondharmanetwork.org
Watch a Global Oneness Project interview with Fleet Maull, former prisoner and founder of PDN.
Link to the very dynamic Prison Dharma Network blog and networking website.

Prison Performing Arts - St. Louis, MO
Prison Performing Arts is an interdisciplinary literacy and performing arts program that serves incarcerated adults and youth in the Missouri criminal and juvenile justice systems. Dedicated to enriching the lives of incarcerated adults and youth, Prison Performing Arts fosters individual and social change by providing current and former inmates opportunities to participate in the performing arts as artists, students, and audience members. Through the performing arts, inmates' creative energies are channeled in constructive ways that generate respect, cooperation, and self-discipline, developing skills that positively influence the prison culture and support their successful return to their families and communities.
prisonartsstl.org

Project AVARY - San Rafael, CA
Project AVARY (Alternative Ventures for At-Risk Youth) is a community-based program for youth with a parent in prison or jail. Project AVARY serves this population by developing the skills, confidence, and positive attitudes that promote healthy personal development and responsibility to community. In weeklong summer camps, monthly excursions, and teen leadership programs, Project AVARY teaches tools of self-discovery, emotional intelligence, self-expression, and positive decision-making with a commitment to consistent, compelling, positive, and individualized support. Project Avary creates a "family" for their youth, many of whom are given the opportunity to join the Project Avary staff when they become old enough.
www.projectavary.org

Red Bird Center - Cambridge, OH
Kalliopeia provides program support for the The Wounded Bear, a therapeutic curriculum for individual and social transformation in the tradition of the medicine story – a Native American term that describes the healing effect a story can have on the listener. Through experiential engagement with The Wounded Bear medicine story in retreats and workshops, the program facilitates deep healing and heart connection in participants. Developed as a tool for social workers, educators, and counselors to address challenges like addiction, trauma and loss, depression, and violence, the curriculum provides an integral, inclusive, and spiritually vibrant approach to healing and prevention in the service of at-risk adults, youth, and communities.
thewoundedbear.com

The Red Shoes - Baton Rouge, LA
The Red Shoes is a women's center that seeks to promote "the recognition of the sacred unity of life" by celebrating and nurturing the inner lives of women. Created as a space for women to gather to share their hopes, spiritual journeys, and personal challenges, the center offers opportunities for spiritual enrichment and personal growth through classes, weekend retreats, and workshops ranging from art to yoga to business management. Programs are designed to connect women's creativity, spirituality, and authenticity in an atmosphere of empowerment and healing.
www.theredshoes.org

Rudolf Steiner College - Fair Oaks, CA
Kalliopeia provides support for the Rudolph Steiner College's Public School Institute, which provides annual training for public kindergarten and elementary school teachers in integrating the Waldorf approach in public classrooms. Founded as a response to budget cuts that have caused the removal of the arts from public schools and children's lives, the Public School Institute works to make the best aspects of Waldorf education available to a broader population.
steinercollege.edu

Santuario Sisterfarm - Boerne, TX
Co-founded by Latina women and Dominican Sisters, Santuario Sisterfarm is a sanctuary for cultivating diversity – both biological and cultural – and living in right relationship with the whole Earth community. The group’s activities include maintaining a seven-acre permaculture farm, a press dedicated to publishing religious women and women of color on topics related to Earth Spirituality, and creating a multilingual, multiracial, and multicultural gathering space for women to "go deep into the spirit of ancestral connections to the land, cultural traditions, women’s ways of knowing, and struggles for justice."
www.sisterfarm.org
Watch the short video “Orientation to Santuario Sisterfarm.”

Sarasa - Cambridge, MA
Kalliopeia supports the Outreach Concerts program of Sarasa, an international group of musicians dedicated to performing quality classical music to incarcerated adolescents. Sarasa bridges cultural, aesthetic, linguistic, and economic barriers through the power of music, and works to bring new experiences of beauty to teens, many of whom have never been exposed to anything but a popular culture infused with toxic messages. Sarasa also performs for incarcerated adults, hospitals, homeless shelters, inner city schools, private homes of the elderly, mental health institutions, and other populations with little access to live classical music.
sarasamusic.org

Shalem Center: Abwoon Resource Center - Worthington, OH
The Shalem Center works for religious understanding and peace, inspired by native Middle Eastern wisdom traditions. The center publishes and distributes the work of Dr. Neil Douglas-Klotz, whose acclaimed translations of the Lord's Prayer and Beatitudes from the original Aramaic language highlight the message of universality, interdependence, and care for the cosmos at the heart of Christian and other native Middle Eastern spiritualities. The center organizes outreach and study in the Aramaic prayers, native Middle Eastern spirituality, and interspiritual leadership through retreats, workshops, and seminars.
www.abwoon.com
Listen to The Lord's Prayer in Aramaic with Dr. Neil Douglas-Klotz.

Soldier's Heart - Troy, NY
Soldier's Heart is a veteran's healing project that addresses the emotional and spiritual needs of veterans, their families, and their communities. Understanding post-traumatic stress disorder as a "soul wound," Soldier's Heart guides community-based efforts to heal the effects of war using strategies presented in director Ed Tick's pioneering book War and the Soul. Kalliopeia provides general support and project support for Return Journeys, a program that brings veterans to former combat zones to seek healing and peace, and that unites former combatants in a profound experience of shared humanity.
www.soldiersheart.net
Watch this Link TV Global – Spirit series episode "Forgiveness and Healing" with Ed Tick and his wife Kate Dahlstedt and their work with Vietnam War veterans.

Sophia Institute - Charleston, SC
The Sophia Institute provides a wide range of programs, retreats, and conferences addressing the needs of people engaged in personal and interpersonal transformation. A forum for leading-edge thinkers and teachers in wisdom and spiritual growth, the Sophia Institute is distinguished by its model of spiritual partnership and integration between feminine and masculine values, and its devotion to the “radical wisdom of the heart” that arises from such integration. Kalliopeia provides support for programming and scholarships.
www.thesophiainstitute.org

Sophia Project - Oakland, CA
The Sophia Project serves children and families in West Oakland who are at risk of recurring homelessness and its effects. The Sophia Project aims to nourish vulnerable children's physical, emotional, spiritual, and social development in the critical early years of life. In their integrated support of family life, Sophia Project recognizes that "within each person exists a spark, connected to the wholeness of humanity. If this spark can be nurtured, nourished and protected … there is the possibility for the person to maintain a connecting thread to humanity through childhood, youth, and adulthood despite seemingly insurmountable obstacles."
www.sophiaproject.org

Stone Circles - Mebane, NC
Valuing stillness as the source of wise action, Stone Circles believes that practices and communities of transformation are necessary to realize the individual liberation that is our birthright and the collective liberation that is our responsibility. Focusing on the inner roots of social justice work, Stone Circles is founded in the knowledge that another world is possible and that practices in support of self awareness and wholeness bring wisdom to our efforts to manifest a socially just world. Through a variety of programs and retreats at their North Carolina farm, Stone Circles provides the time and space for for change agents to engage in this transformational work.
www.stonecircles.org

Suluk Academy - New Lebanon, NY
Kalliopeia provides project support for the Suluk Academy, a program of study of the perspectives and practices of Sufism in the universalist tradition of Hazrat Inayat Khan. The Suluk Academy's approach emphasizes the cultivation of self knowledge, integration and balance through the Sufi path of love.
http://www.sulukacademy.org

Tunefoolery - Cambridge, MA
Tunefoolery Concert Ensembles is a unique group of over fifty musicians with psychiatric disabilities who play and perform music as a means of healing and recovery. Musicians perform in ensembles and solo acts in diverse musical styles for other consumers of mental health services as well as the general public, bringing education, hope, and inspiration to thousands of other consumers every year. Working against the problem-oriented approach that pervades mental health services and the stigmas of society at large, Tunefoolery's model of recovery empowers mental health consumers to be engaged participants in healing, providing positive life change through creative expression, vocational opportunity, teamwork, and pursuit of meaning.
www.tunefoolery.org

Wilderness Arts & Literacy Collaborative - San Francisco, CA
WALC provides students at two inner-city San Francisco high schools with an interdisciplinary academic program that uses environmental education and stewardship activities to integrate science, literature, writing, technology, art, and history – all with a pedagogical focus on the experiences of people of color. Field experiences such as hiking, camping, habitat restoration, and recycling are woven together with classroom coursework to provide the experiential foundation for a challenging academic curriculum. WALC's vision is that inner-city high school students achieve greater academic success and grow into an interconnected community as a result of engagement in a transformative educational model. WALC's model creates resilient young people with a strong connection to their own heritage and to the need to create sustainable ways of living in harmony with nature, ultimately contributing to diversification within the environmental movement.
www.walcsf.net
Listen and view WALC Stories on their YouTube channel.

William James Association - Santa Cruz, CA
Kalliopeia provides support for The Prison Arts Project, a thirty-five year old program that gathers professional visual, literary, and performing artists to provide in-depth, long-term arts experiences for incarcerated men and women in California state prisons. Based on the belief that participation in the artistic process significantly affects a person's self-esteem and general outlook on the world, art workshops teach self-discipline, problem solving, and concentration through absorption in a specific creative endeavor. The skills acquired through participation in the arts are translated to other aspects of one's life, while satisfying each individual's need for creativity, self-expression, recognition, and self-respect.
www.williamjamesassociation.org/prison_arts.html